November 29, 2023 What Would Your Hospital Do Without Water? Across our communities, aging infrastructure and antiquated systems are easy targets for nefarious actors who want to disrupt daily living and exploit technology—so, we must be prepared.
November 14, 2023 Are You Protecting Yourself Against Ransomware? The rise of digital health care has had its benefits over the years, bringing hospitals and other medical facilities into the modern age. We are far from the days of sending faxes from one wing of the hospital to the other and hoping someone happens to be standing by the machine.
October 31, 2023 What is ‘Smart’ Emergency Management? Emergency management (EM) is one of many fields in health care that could potentially benefit from so-called “smart” technologies, but it’s not easy to get started without first doing your homework.
October 16, 2023 Is Your Hospital Ready for a Blizzard? We hope winter will be mild and routine, but we all know that “hope” isn’t the best plan in emergency management.
October 02, 2023 What We Can Learn from the Nationwide Emergency Alert Test FEMA and the Federal Communications Commission recently announced they would conduct a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System and Wireless Emergency Alerts.
September 15, 2023 Does Predictive Modeling Have a Place in Emergency Management? Whatever your comfort level with new technology, the use of artificial intelligence and predictive modeling seems likely to be part of the future of emergency management